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GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Mathematical Discourses concerning Two New Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion in Four Dialogues. London: J. Hooke, 1730.
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GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Mathematical Discourses concerning Two New Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion in Four Dialogues. London: J. Hooke, 1730.
The first separate edition in English of "the first modern textbook of physics, a foundation stone in the science of mechanics" (Grolier). "So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion" (Hawking, p. 397). Galileo's work was first translated into English by Thomas Salusbury and appeared in his Mathematical Collections of 1661. This second edition in English was translated by Thomas Weston and posthumously published by his brother, John Weston, both Masters of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. See Grolier/Horblit 36 (1st ed); Hawking, Shoulders of Giants, 2002.
Quarto (250 x 195mm). Title printed in red and black, numerous diagrams in text, one engraved table, advertisement leaf (light soiling to title and a few other leaves, table loose, overall very fresh). Contemporary paneled calf, ruled in blind (neatly rebacked with original spine preserved, light repair to corners).
The first separate edition in English of "the first modern textbook of physics, a foundation stone in the science of mechanics" (Grolier). "So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion" (Hawking, p. 397). Galileo's work was first translated into English by Thomas Salusbury and appeared in his Mathematical Collections of 1661. This second edition in English was translated by Thomas Weston and posthumously published by his brother, John Weston, both Masters of the Royal Observatory Greenwich. See Grolier/Horblit 36 (1st ed); Hawking, Shoulders of Giants, 2002.
Quarto (250 x 195mm). Title printed in red and black, numerous diagrams in text, one engraved table, advertisement leaf (light soiling to title and a few other leaves, table loose, overall very fresh). Contemporary paneled calf, ruled in blind (neatly rebacked with original spine preserved, light repair to corners).